CONSTITUENCY BRIEFING · ENERGYMAP.APP
North Cotswolds
North Cotswolds has 55 MW of clean power (all solar) approved and still not built: enough to supply a year's electricity to 20,000 homes. Britain's grid bottlenecks still add to bills here: about £92 a year per household, £3.7m across the constituency's 40,206 homes.
Ranks 112 of 650 for clean power approved and not built.
What is stuck, and why
| Project and developer | Tech | Size | Why it is stuck |
|---|---|---|---|
| Moreton Lane - Solar Farm & Battery StorageJBM Solar Projects 7 Limited | Solar | 50 MW18,000 homes | Approved 4 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref S.21/0465/FUL |
| Moreton Lane - Solar Farm & Battery StorageJBM Solar Projects 7 Limited | Battery | 50 MW | Approved 4 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref S.21/0465/FUL |
| Epney, Framilode - Solar Farm & Battery StoragePACE Tribute Energy Limited | Solar | 50 MW18,000 homes | Refused by Stroud Council in 2025Who can move it: Stroud Council · planning ref S.25/1011/FUL |
| Brockworth Road - Battery Storage SystemExagen | Battery | 20 MW | Approved 2 years ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 23/01078/FUL |
| Welsh Way - Solar PV FarmInnova Renewables | Solar | 13 MW4,700 homes | Approved a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref 23/03907/FUL |
| Brookthorpe Solar FarmPS Renewables | Solar | 8 MW2,900 homes | Approved a year ago — nothing has happened sinceWho can move it: the developer and the network company · planning ref S.24/0609/FUL |
Plus 4 smaller projects — see the full seat page.
Compared with its neighbours
| Constituency | Approved, not built | Running | Paid to switch off |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Cotswolds | 55 MW | 14 MW | not visible |
| Witney | 48 MW | 61 MW | not visible |
| Banbury | 10 MW | 20 MW | not visible |
| Stratford-on-Avon | 134 MW | 39 MW | not visible |
| South Cotswolds | 194 MW | 224 MW | not visible |
| Cheltenham | 0.5 MW | 0 MW | not visible |
South Cotswolds next door has 194 MW waiting, more than North Cotswolds's 55 MW.
The rest of the briefing
- Every approval each project still needs, and which of them the public can see
- What building them would mean here — community payments, business rates and construction work
- Drafted parliamentary questions and letters, filled in with this seat's figures
- 3 story angles for local reporting
- A two-page PDF, and a newsroom edition with the references and who to call
Everything above needs no account, and neither does the full seat page, the method or this constituency's raw data. The account covers the packaged briefing and its PDF, and nothing else.